Battgendorf menhir

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The Battgendorf menhir was a prehistoric menhir near Battgendorf in the Sömmerda district , Thuringia . It was apparently destroyed in the first half of the 20th century.

location

The menhir was just beyond the town exit on the way to Beichlingen .

description

The stone consisted of a pebble plate. It was about 4 to 5 feet (about 1.30 m) high and 3 feet (93 cm) wide. It had a naturally formed hole 10 inches (about 30 cm) in diameter and thus resembled the menhir from Gerbstedt and the menhir from Nohra . Finds from the area around the stone come from the Neolithic (mainly corded ceramic culture ), the Aunjetitz culture and the Full Bronze Age . Waldtraut Schrickel was unable to find the menhir in the 1950s despite an intensive search and questioning of residents. It must therefore be viewed as destroyed.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 73.
  • AA Bergner: Collected contributions to German antiquities. Some news about the Heidensteine. In: Saxon Association for the Research of patriotic antiquities in Leipzig (ed.): Contributions to German antiquity. Volume I, Leipzig 1876, p. 17.
  • Chr. Keferstein: Views on Celtic antiquities, the Celts in general and especially in Germany. Volume I, Halle 1846, pp. 39, 43.
  • Horst Kirchner : The menhirs in Central Europe and the menhir thought (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1955, No. 9). Wiesbaden 1955, p. 183.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part 1. Catalog Leipzig 1957, p. 17.